Burns and other poets /

These essays focus on Robert Burns' achievements as a poet, exploring his special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture. Close readings of his dialogues with earlier poets such as John Milton, Thomas Gray and Allan Ramsay, sit alongside analyses of the creative responses of his...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sergeant, David, 1979-, Stafford, Fiona J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Burns, Robert, > 1759-1796 > Criticism and interpretation.
Burns, Robert, > 1759-1796 > Influence.
Burns, Robert, > 1759-1796
Burns, Robert > 1759-1796
English poetry > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
English poetry > History and criticism.
Poésie anglaise > Auteurs écossais > Histoire et critique.
Poésie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English poetry
English poetry > Scottish authors
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Englisch
Lyrik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • The Devil's Elbow
  • 1. Introduction: Burns and the Performance of Form
  • 2. Burns and Loyalty
  • 3. Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns
  • 4. Robert Burns's Scots Poetry Contemporaries
  • 5. 'To a Mouse': Burns, Power and Equality
  • 6. Burns's Sentiments: Gray, Milton and 'To A Mountain-Daisy'
  • 7. House and Home in Burns's Poems
  • 8. 'The Real Language of Men': Fa's Speerin? Burns and the Scottish Romantic Vernacular
  • 9. 'Merry Ha'e We Been': The Midnight Visions of Brian Merriman and Robert Burns
  • 10. Arcades Ambo: Robert Burns and Thomas Dermody
  • 11. 'Simple Bards, unbroke by rules of Art': The Poetic Self- Fashioning of Burns and Hogg
  • 12. Wordsworth and Burns
  • 13. The 'Ethical Turn' in Literary Criticism: Burns and Byron
  • 14. MacDiarmid, Burnsians, and Burns's Legacy
  • 15. Ireland's National Bard
  • 16. The Collapse of Distance: Heaney's Burns and the 1990s
  • 'The Old Second Division'
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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